Yes, Waddy, I don't understand what you mean here. Unless you pick up and move your mouse you will never see the, admittedly somewhat old-school, pop-up control panel.
Your remote replicates the play/pause/ffw/rew/stop controls and if you press up or down arrow an on screen display (different to the mouse-friendly control panel) appears at the bottom which you can use together with the left and right arrow keys to change subtitles/audio and many other things. Everything you need can be done either with the your remote's player control keys or its arrow keys.